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SpaceWeavil
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 Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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| sindohte wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | [It's had no new reviews for ages as well, though it's been updated. I don't know if that means anything, but it could hint that people have lost interest in it as well. |
I totally missed that point when I read through your reply the first time, but I do want to address it now. I don't think that people have lost interest in your story, but rather you have found your set audience for the story in question. And this audience of reviewers may not always leave you a follow up review as a general rule (the well if I liked your story once, why do I need to say it again pov) or perhaps they haven't gotten around to reading your story yet because they have been busy with stuff.
This is just total speculation on my part, but I think that a newly posted or edited story will probably get the most hits in the first week or so because it is on the top of the heap. However as newer stories are posted, stories (no matter how good they might be) are invariably lost in the shuffle. |
When I say that, I'm not whining for reviews or anything, and I'll apologise if that's what it sounds like. I have stuff on FF.Net that never gets reviewed and it doesn't stop me writing it. I appreciate any comment left as I know how busy most folks are, and the fact that they take time out to comment means a lot. I also didn't mean that as a disrespectful comment to anyone who has reviewed the story so far, and again sorry if that's how it sounded.
Overall in fact, I'm sorry if the post sounded moany. Just I've had this situation before where I haven't known whether to leave a story or to abandon it totally or to keep going, only the story wasn't posted on an archive before. Anyway, I shall stop going on. I reckon I will leave this fic for the moment and I have something else to play with in the meantime, see if the muse comes back.
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| Thuriniel wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: |  thanks.
It's my latest challenge story thing. |
You mean ... the challenge that is not even two weeks old? You've already had time to write a few chapters, post, and even get writer's block  ?
I think I've written about one page for that challenge and I was feeling so good about myself!
I must definitely be the slowest writer out there ...
My advice? Step back, give it a rest, let inspiration unconsciously do her work ... and then attack and finish  ! |
You're not slow. I just don't have much of a social life beyond my keyboard, and am also a bit of an obsessive writer. I feel weird if I don't have something to sit and scribble at, which is why getting a block really stresses me. I've been using stories here as a way to wind down lately as well when I've been studying, which is how I've been able to get a fair bit done. I like having a few things on the go at the same time as well, so I can dot back and forth between them, and hope that one of the relevant muses wants to play.
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Ilmatar
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:53 pm Post subject: |
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Whenever I am having a writers block (read all the time), I just write something down, leave it and come back the next day and edit. I keep doing that until I am satisfied with the outcome. That works for me, but then again I have to do edit a lot in general, because english is not my native language and I have to work really hard to make the story flow nicely.
I think it was my lovely beta Lossefalme01 who had received advice from a professional writer on the subject. Anyway the author had adviced her to print out the latest chapter and then re-type it. I do not know if that will help, but just a suggestion. (And Losse, please do not kill me if I remembered the thing wrong  ) |
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sindohte
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Overall in fact, I'm sorry if the post sounded moany. Just I've had this situation before where I haven't known whether to leave a story or to abandon it totally or to keep going, only the story wasn't posted on an archive before. |
Nah, I didn't think you were being moany, more of having a WTF moment when you throw your hands up into the air and shout random epithets at the heavens. My advice is to leave the story that is giving you problems alone for a bit and come back to it later. As the saying goes - a watched pot never boils
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:16 pm Post subject: |
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| sindohte wrote: | | SpaceWeavil wrote: | | Overall in fact, I'm sorry if the post sounded moany. Just I've had this situation before where I haven't known whether to leave a story or to abandon it totally or to keep going, only the story wasn't posted on an archive before. |
Nah, I didn't think you were being moany, more of having a WTF moment when you throw your hands up into the air and shout random epithets at the heavens. My advice is to leave the story that is giving you problems alone for a bit and come back to it later. As the saying goes - a watched pot never boils |
Several of those moments in succession Anyway, thanks everyone for the advice. I am leaving it for now. Actually tonight I have an evening of vegging planned, having rented Troy to watch, plus my friend in the States has mailed me a Jason Isaacs film I couldn't get over here.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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Troy and Jason Isaacs! If you're not inspired after that I wash my hands of you! Although, I realize that might not be kind of inspiration you were looking for ...
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SpaceWeavil
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Troy and Jason Isaacs! If you're not inspired after that I wash my hands of you! Although, I realize that might not be kind of inspiration you were looking for ... |
Well I might be inspired, though whether anything I write after that would be fit for publication.... 
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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I'm trying to figure out if I'm doing something wrong with my one story that's on here, and if that's the reason why I haven't been able to work on it, but I had it all thought out from the beginning to the end of it. So, I'm wondering if I should re-write the last chapter I had posted or not? Oh God...I think I'm going to scream my head off any time...
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| Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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If you have an idea of a different ending, why not try rewriting the chapter and see where the story then goes, without changing what you have posted right away, then if it looks like you are going to go down that road, then change it and let people know that's what you've done in an author's note or something?
 Not sure.
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| DarkElfChilde wrote: | | I'm trying to figure out if I'm doing something wrong with my one story that's on here, and if that's the reason why I haven't been able to work on it, but I had it all thought out from the beginning to the end of it. So, I'm wondering if I should re-write the last chapter I had posted or not? Oh God...I think I'm going to scream my head off any time... |
Oh, rethink the whole rewriting and reposting bit. Think hard on it. I rewrote what I thought would be a twelve page rewrite on my first fic. My original story was like a hundred pages or so; now it is 275 and I am no where near where the original ended. Only to find out that I rewrote it because of one person's opinion, and have been told since that it was good in the first place.  Not that I am unhappy with the rewrite, just thinking of all the energy and time invested, when I could have been writing something else.
And about the muse, get it drunk. Mine always kick in when coming off a good sousing.  But, I do try to keep them separate. Two drunk at the same time gives me nothing with which to work. |
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